• The International Indian Treaty Council (IITC), The International Diplomatic and Political is an organization of Indigenous Peoples from North, Central, South America and the Pacific working for the rights of Indigenous Peoples and the protection of our cultures, way of life, sacred lands and waters. (aimovement.org)
  • The portrayal of Native Americans in television and films concerns indigenous roles in cinema, particularly their depiction in Hollywood productions. (wikipedia.org)
  • Starting in the 1990s, Native American filmmakers have attempted to make independent films that work to represent the depth and complexity of indigenous peoples as people and provide a realistic account of their culture. (wikipedia.org)
  • November is National Native American Heritage Month , a time to celebrate the rich and diverse cultures, traditions, values, and histories of Indigenous peoples throughout the United States of America. (indianpueblo.org)
  • Indigenous peoples came with the land called America. (indianpueblo.org)
  • However, since Harvard Law's penchant for highlighting her as a "woman of color" who added a uniquely multicultural perspective first came to light in late April, Warren has refused to speak to Native newspapers and websites, including Indian Country Today, the largest indigenous media outlet in the nation. (indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com)
  • Native American and Indigenous Literatures, American Ethnic and Multicultural Literatures, 20th-21st Century American Literature, Trans-Indigenous Literatures, Environmental Studies, Native American and Indigenous Studies, Popular Culture-Television and Film, New Media and Visual Arts. (willamette.edu)
  • Dogs, Horses, and Indians': Blood Quantum, Casinos, and Sovereignty in the 'Indian Episode'" Sovereignty and/in Indigenous Film. (willamette.edu)
  • Of Course the Ghost Nation Speaks Lakota: Indigenous Stereotypes in \W/estworld" NAISA Association Annual Meeting. (willamette.edu)
  • Seeking Solutions to Climate Change in the Boundaries: The Influence of Global Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge" Changing World: Indigenous Narrative Boundaries Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures. (willamette.edu)
  • Honoring Indigenous Homelands: Place-based Learning in Native American Literature and History Courses Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures. (willamette.edu)
  • Along with our non-Indian friends and allies all are knowledgeable about the spiritual, cultural, social, economic, political, philosophical realities, of the Indigenous world and non-Indigenous world. (aimovement.org)
  • The use of literature to develop more empathy, ties into a deepening of the vision of propitious Indigenous sides of American reality. (openedition.org)
  • They are syncretic poets in the sense that, while specific Indigenous traditions happily persist, the poems are reconciled to living within and make novel use of the products of American society. (openedition.org)
  • Harjo's creativity partakes of what Louise Glück calls, with some irony, in an essay, "American originality" (2017), and Harjo's subversion is tied to Indigenous tricksterism (see below). (openedition.org)
  • Pat McCormack, a professor emerita in the University of Alberta's Faculty of Native Studies who studies material culture and stereotypes, says the interest in North American indigenous fashion experienced a surge during the 1960s. (ualberta.ca)
  • McCormack calls it a "stereotype of Indian-ness" that generalizes a 19th-century image of Plains people to all Indigenous people regardless of their actual cultural practices. (ualberta.ca)
  • Indigenous and non-native Great Falls students and staff gather around hides of six bison, including a freshly killed bison, as Indian Education Director Dugan Coburn (in blanket coat) demonstrates skinning the bison and honoring its life with thanks with a sage-burning and pipe prayer. (civileats.com)
  • Dugan Coburn, Indian Education for All and Indigenous Education director for Great Falls Public Schools, guts every organ from a bison for native and non-native students and school staff. (civileats.com)
  • Through a comparative analysis, the duality that characterises Pico's verse will be highlighted, and will place him in a tradition of indigenous poets who demonstrate that duality is a defining feature of Native American poetry. (lu.se)
  • In academic writing about Native American literature, one will find a variety of nomenclature to describe America's indigenous. (lu.se)
  • The 1930 silent film The Silent Enemy is an example of a film that focuses on Native American characters prior to colonization. (wikipedia.org)
  • This article reviews the history of medical and research abuses experienced by American Indians since European colonization. (researchgate.net)
  • It endangers our tribal sovereignty - our authority to make decisions for our tribes and our members. (indianpueblo.org)
  • In an advanced Native American Literatures course I taught at Fort Lewis College, an invited author and tribal elder was surprised when students began class with woyaksape, words of encouragement, and then used proper Lakota kinship terms to greet each other, "Híŋhaŋni laȟči. (willamette.edu)
  • He is an expert on treaties, federal Indian law and tribal law and is currently an adjunct professor for Oglala Lakota College in the "Manager as Warrior" Graduate Studies Program. (aimovement.org)
  • Similar to a federal surplus program in South Dakota and Nebraska, where tribal, family, and public land grant management continues to help bring bison back from near extinction, the Diamond 4D Ranch in Montana teams with Indian Education leaders to reintroduce bison to their native range in a "perfect ecosystem. (civileats.com)
  • Gerald Vizenor describes the word Indian as "a colonial enactment, not a loan word, [whose] dominance is sustained by the simulation that has superseded the real tribal names" (11). (lu.se)
  • And so, he went to work as a physician for the Indian Office, the federal agency that oversaw the government's relations with tribal nations. (wondriumdaily.com)
  • One might argue that those old good-neighbor times were better than what federal Indian policy has begotten in recent years with the new government-centered tribal "sovereignty," which celebrates differences and separate nationhood. (equalrightsforall.info)
  • Nowadays one must distinguish between the Indian people and the modern Indian Industry--powerful taxpayer-funded tribal governments and their consultants, lawyers, lobbyists, public-relations firms, corporate types, and influential friends and insulators in journalism, politics, and academics. (equalrightsforall.info)
  • Includes correspondence, reports, tribal council minutes and other administrative documentation, news clippings and other related materials generated during Thomas Dodge's tenure at the various Indian agencies at which he served. (asu.edu)
  • The Supreme Court's decision in Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl is most certainly a blow to Indian sovereignty by way of an assault on core notions of Indian family and tribal identity. (americanindianadoptees.com)
  • American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians have served in the United States Armed Forces in every military conflict since America's founding. (indianpueblo.org)
  • American Indian and Alaska Natives (AIAN) serve at a higher rate and have a higher concentration of female service members than all other service members. (indianpueblo.org)
  • This article examines the unethical research of American Indians/Alaska Natives in light of the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male. (researchgate.net)
  • Literature citations indicate that significant unethical research and medical care incidents occurred both before and after the Tuskegee Syphilis Study among American Indians/Alaska Natives. (researchgate.net)
  • In Daniel Francis' book, The Imaginary Indian: The Image of the Indian in Canadian Culture (1992), he discusses how companies appropriated Aboriginal culture and symbols since the nineteenth century to help market products as diverse as medicine, food, and oil. (activehistory.ca)
  • Opposition against the Redskins first occurred in 1992 when a group of Native Americans filed a lawsuit against the team. (activehistory.ca)
  • and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.'s Disuniting of America (1992). (ratical.org)
  • Deer, an actor, writer, and director, was involved in the production of over 150 movies, an example being White Fawn's Devotion: A Play Acted by a Tribe of Red Indians in America. (wikipedia.org)
  • Procedures for Establishing that an American Indian Group Exists as an Indian Tribe. (newagefraud.org)
  • [5] The College of William and Mary (W&M) had previously changed from "Indians" to The Tribe , but was cited due to two feathers in its logo, which were removed. (wikipedia.org)
  • San Diego State University was not cited by the NCAA in 2005 due to a decision that the Aztecs were not a Native American tribe with any living descendants. (wikipedia.org)
  • [7] A SDSU professor of American Indian Studies states that among other problems the mascot teaches the mistaken idea that the Aztecs were a local tribe rather than living in Mexico 1,000 miles away. (wikipedia.org)
  • Contemporary Native filmmakers have employed the use of visual sovereignty, defined by Seneca scholar Michelle H. Raheja as "a way of reimagining Native-centered articulations of self-representation and autonomy that engage the powerful ideologies of mass media," to take back the right to tell their own stories. (wikipedia.org)
  • This month, the ICC blog will point the way to exhibits and resources from the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) on the American Indian identity in America, Native films and filmmakers, and Native veterans. (indianpueblo.org)
  • Evidently, policing semantic constructs and political correctness is an inherently selective pastime, since Warren herself has invoked reductive stereotypes and external signifiers of ethnicity when she felt they bolstered her fabricated narrative. (indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com)
  • In his memoir, Eastman presented a vexing narrative, one filled with dark ruminations on the arrogance and excess of industrial America, free-market capitalism, materialism and acquisitiveness, and-to the extent that it was used to legitimate these things-Christianity, which he likened to a machine-made religion. (wondriumdaily.com)
  • Bordewich, a roving editor for the Readers' Digest , provides a short take on the influence issue on page 298 of this combination travel narrative and polemic: "Indians are now commonly taught to believe that American democracy is based on the Iroquois Confederation, a curious notion that relies on a handful of rhetorical remarks by Benjamin Franklin. (ratical.org)
  • They hail from at least 60 different Native American communities, which include members of the Chippewa Cree, Assiniboine, Little Shell, and Blackfeet tribes, among others. (civileats.com)
  • Treaty violation, however, does not nullify their legality, and Native American tribes to this day still live under the laws and restrictions that have controlled their sovereignty for hundreds of years. (lu.se)
  • The publication of a text so carefully constructed with legally non-binding terms and saturated with use of the passive voice was, to many Native Americans, unsurprising in the context of dealings between Native American tribes and the Federal Government. (lu.se)
  • Consists of correspondence, notes, newsclippings and printed matter relating to modern and prehistoric Indian tribes in Arizona, the Pueblo Grande Museum, the Arizona State Parks Association and a number of social and political issues. (asu.edu)
  • Over 4,000 Indians representing 98 Indian Nations from 9 countries were in attendance. (aimovement.org)
  • He is also a Human Rights Specialist who represented the International Indian Treaty Council at the United Nations Commission on Human Rights for five years. (aimovement.org)
  • 4 In counter-rhythm to today's divisive trends, "Living Nations," is a resource projecting the reader forward towards a well grounded state built on comradery and a virtual America for all. (openedition.org)
  • Aboriginals are never portrayed in contemporary fashion nor have teams selected other, more fitting qualities like intelligence or generosity to represent their so-called "Indian" mascots or logos. (activehistory.ca)
  • The decision should serve as a warning to all marginalized groups such as Indians, ethnic minorities, the lower class, or the LGBT community: If given the opportunity the High Court will construe legislation to serve its own institutionalized interests, in spite of the law's intent. (americanindianadoptees.com)
  • In 1914, Theodore Wharton directed The Indian War Refought: The Wars for Civilization in America which romanticized multiple battles including the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre, wherein U.S. Army soldiers killed over 250 Lakota Indians, including men, women, and children, and buried them in a mass grave. (wikipedia.org)
  • Opened in 1890, the Santa Fe School provided industrial training for children from Indian reservations in Arizona and New Mexico. (asu.edu)
  • Our speakers have histories of activism in campaigns for human rights, sovereignty, environmental protection, economic development and cooperative development. (aimovement.org)
  • Consist of material on the history and culture of the Navajo and Hidatsa Indians. (asu.edu)
  • [8] However, in February 2017 the SDSU Native American Student Alliance (NASA) supports removal of the mascot, calling its continue use " institutional racism " in its official statement to the Committee on Diversity, Equity and Outreach. (wikipedia.org)
  • Another problem is that the headdress represents a stereotype that Native studies associate professor and artist Tanya Harnett describes as "pan-Indian in nature. (ualberta.ca)
  • These stage performances toured America and Europe, presenting romanticized fiction about the American frontier which some audiences misunderstood as history. (wikipedia.org)
  • American history begins on the East Coast and pushes the Indians west, to extinction. (indianpueblo.org)
  • The Reclaiming Native Truth (RNT) project found that 72 percent of Americans rarely encounter information about Native Americans, and 87 percent of state history standards do not mention Native American history after 1900. (civileats.com)
  • First Peoples is the definitive text for the Native American history survey course, telling the story with a wealth of documentary evidence from both Native and non-Native perspectives. (macmillanlearning.com)
  • The history of Native Americans after the arrival of the pilgrims in 1620 is one of disenfranchisement, genocide, and forced migration. (lu.se)
  • In 2009, the United States Federal Government issued an "acknowledgement and apology," acknowledging a "long history of official depredations and ill-conceived policies" in its dealings with Native Americans (Congress.gov). (lu.se)
  • Later, I researched and wrote a number of papers dealing with American Indians for college history, anthropology, and political science classes. (equalrightsforall.info)
  • From the 1870s to the 1910s, Wild West shows such as Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show popularized conflict between cowboys and Indians. (wikipedia.org)
  • Playing at cowboys and Indians has become common again, as seen in a recent No Doubt video and a major Ibiza club event with David Guetta . (ualberta.ca)
  • With the increasing popularity of amateur, professional, and collegiate sports teams, squads also branded their teams after Indian groups in an attempt to associate the team with the perceived courage, ferocity, and strength of Indians. (activehistory.ca)
  • Condensing the extensive and unwieldy topic into time-limited opening remarks, Brown correctly noted that the Cambridge professor had advertised herself as an American Indian in a professional context, "and, as you can see, clearly she's not. (indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com)
  • The majority of these unethical abuses were committed by the federal government and within the historical context of a long-term contentious relationship between American Indians and the federal government. (researchgate.net)
  • However, the diversity of Native American poets is considered in the literature. (lu.se)
  • As a school-age youngster I read much about "Indians," not just the plains and woodlands cultures of Minnesota and neighboring states and provinces, but from the Modocs and Kwakiutls near the Pacific to the Seminoles in Florida, to the Apaches, Comanches, and Kiowas in the southwest. (equalrightsforall.info)
  • On the verge of the millenium, Indian people are still involved in what Michael Haney has described as the longest undeclared war against the American Indian, here in our own homeland. (aimovement.org)
  • In 1968 he co-founded the American Indian Movement (AIM), and establishing it to protect the traditional ways of Indian people and to engage in legal cases protecting treaty rights of Natives-such as hunting and fishing, trapping, wild riceing. (aimovement.org)
  • Harnett, a member of the Carry-the-Kettle First Nation, says the typical fashion headdress is based on a Sioux style that does not represent the diversity of traditional headdresses worn by people across North America. (ualberta.ca)
  • Eastman wanted to serve the Indian people. (wondriumdaily.com)
  • Charles Eastman joined the Indian Office in order to serve his people. (wondriumdaily.com)
  • What he must have thought and what this meant for the present and future of American Indian people. (wondriumdaily.com)
  • Indian people are often out-of-the-loop fronts for it all. (equalrightsforall.info)
  • Banks earned an Associates of Arts degree at Davis University and taught at Deganawida Quetzecoatl (DQ) University (an all Indian-controlled institution), where he became the first American Indian chancellor. (aimovement.org)
  • Although President Clinton issued a highly visible public apology to the African American survivors of the Tuskegee syphilis experiment in 1997, American Indians have yet to experience such visible federal acknowledgment. (researchgate.net)
  • Additional Health Support Information: Emotional, cultural, and professional support services are also available to Survivors and their families through the Indian Residential Schools Resolution Health Support Program. (americanindianadoptees.com)
  • The variety of terms and lack of consensus in Native American literary studies does highlight the reality that this nomenclature is a postcolonial issue. (lu.se)
  • and, most disappointingly, the National Congress of American Indians upbraided the Senator for facilitating the advancement of an offensive and stereotypical mischaracterization of Native Americans. (indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com)
  • These resources include material found in the Labriola National American Indian Data Center in the University Libraries at Arizona State University, websites, and other research facilities. (asu.edu)
  • The Treaty Council was founded in 1974 at a gathering sponsored by the American Indian Movement in Standing Rock, South Dakota. (aimovement.org)
  • Although the collection ranges from 1909 to 1974, the bulk of the collection concerns research on Indian culture and museology conducted from 1927-1964. (asu.edu)
  • Eastman's mother, who was of mixed Indian and white ancestry, died shortly after his birth, and four years later, he was separated from his father during the Dakota Conflict of 1862. (wondriumdaily.com)
  • And Anderson referenced last spring's pre-opener fish-in with gill nets, also in violation of state law, at Lake Bemidji by Leech Lake and White Earth Band activists claiming harvest and co-management rights in the vast 1855 ceded territory stretching from Mille Lacs to the Canadian border at one point, with a westward finger reaching the North Dakota border. (equalrightsforall.info)
  • Outdoor News Editor Rob Drieslein's May 20 column recounted his visit to the May 13 Cedar Lake event that challenged state jurisdiction over certain Indians in metroland. (equalrightsforall.info)
  • for perceived systemic problems since the inception of the industry for its use of stereotypes that range from violent barbarians to noble and peaceful savages. (wikipedia.org)
  • Although the Ghost Dance was a peaceful movement meant to provide healing and reconciliation, non-Indians were threatened by it. (wondriumdaily.com)
  • Bordewich also calls Oren Lyons an advocate of "Indian superiority. (ratical.org)
  • American Indian Movement, National Coalition on Racism in Sports and Media, and International Indian Treaty Council. (aimovement.org)
  • American poets. (lu.se)
  • Firstly, Tommy Pico's Nature Poem will be read alongside a selection of Native American poets. (lu.se)
  • Long Soldier's work demonstrates the complicated relationship between Native American poets and the English language, utilising linguistic and poetic methods to disrupt the hierarchical power of English in public discourse. (lu.se)
  • The following bibliography lists American Indian manuscript collections. (asu.edu)
  • Native Americans had to change their way of life to carve out some room for themselves in this world. (wondriumdaily.com)
  • Learn more about American Indians and World War I . (wondriumdaily.com)
  • Contains material mainly from Web sites dealing with American Indians in all world wars including Desert Storm, Iraq and Afghanistan. (asu.edu)
  • Through the use of several analytic methods and postcolonial theories, this thesis will analyse representations of language, place, and identity, and argue that they are constructed in the border between Native American and American consciousness. (lu.se)
  • An NDN person in occupied America": Tommy Pico and Place. (lu.se)
  • Tanya Harnett took her self-portrait "An Oxford Indian" after a chance encounter with an Oxford partygoer wearing a feathered headband. (ualberta.ca)
  • This exhibition highlights the ways in which American Indians have been part of the nation's identity since before the country began. (indianpueblo.org)
  • Series of articles by Avis Little Eagle, for Native American TimesNotes from Indian Country "Exposing the fake medicine men and women? (newagefraud.org)
  • News From Indian Country. (newagefraud.org)
  • The staff at Indian Country and Suzette Brewer really deserve to be commended for their coverage of these cases. (americanindianadoptees.com)
  • Thank you Indian Country for your commitment to journalism, which unfortunately is apparently rare these days. (americanindianadoptees.com)
  • John Collier was the commissioner of Bureau of Indian Affairs from 1933-1945. (asu.edu)
  • As the poet Heid E. Erdrich (Ojibwe) wrote, "there is no such thing as Native American poetry. (lu.se)
  • long-term contentious relationship between American Indians and the federal government. (researchgate.net)
  • Rather, Charles Eastman's life was emblematic of a generation of American Indians who, in myriad ways, carved out spaces for themselves on their terms. (wondriumdaily.com)
  • citation needed] The portrayal of Native Americans in film has been criticized[by whom? (wikipedia.org)
  • In 1950, the watershed film Broken Arrow appeared, which many credit as the first postwar Western to depict Native Americans sympathetically. (wikipedia.org)
  • Circa 1910, Nanticoke film director James Young Deer was hired by Pathé to produce accurate Native American silent films with positive portrayals. (wikipedia.org)
  • The National Museum of the American Indian's Native Cinema Showcase is an annual celebration of the best in Native film. (indianpueblo.org)
  • Montana's Indian Education For All, a program that employs a director, three full-time Indian education specialists, and others at the district level, including Coburn, is based on policy that has existed since 1999. (civileats.com)
  • The Massacre romanticized Custer's roles in the Indian Wars, with recurring scenes of white mother struggling to protect her infant, while a Native American mother is killed and collapses offscreen. (wikipedia.org)
  • Invisibility, toxic stereotypes, and false narratives are perpetuated and institutionalized through K-12 education, popular culture, and the media. (indianpueblo.org)
  • Dugan Coburn, the director of the district's Indian Education for All (IEFA) program, led a sage-burning ceremony and then a ritual pipe ceremony to clear bad energy and release negativity. (civileats.com)
  • Also contains materials covering his teaching experience at Diné College, and his papers from the 1991 White House Conference on Indian Education. (asu.edu)
  • Fedr argues that education is becoming political turf for "victimologists" to the point that "New York also instructs its students that the U.S. Constitution was heavily influenced by the politics of the Iroquois, a politically correct fantasy for which the state's Indians successfully lobbied. (ratical.org)
  • The new and largely unaccountable Indian Industry's themes have been fight and sue, en route to ever-more authority and jurisdiction. (equalrightsforall.info)
  • How is it that Indians can be so present and so absent in American life? (indianpueblo.org)
  • American life. (lu.se)
  • Indian Life Magazine 17:1 (March/April, 1996), p. 9. (ratical.org)
  • The National Congress of American Indians estimates that fewer than 1,000 schools (secondary and collegiate) still use derogatory Aboriginal imagery and logos in their sports programs. (activehistory.ca)
  • [1] Fourteen schools either removed all references to Native American culture or were deemed not to have references to Native American culture as part of their athletics programs. (wikipedia.org)
  • By 1910, one-fifth of American films were Westerns. (wikipedia.org)
  • He is a founder of KILl Radio on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation - a station that provides critical communication for various remote communities. (aimovement.org)
  • Hipkins, Stephen "Playing Indian and other groups, websites and activities that aren't quite right. (newagefraud.org)
  • The event not only continued the dialogue about these issues but also included Native Americans in the discussion. (activehistory.ca)
  • This page is a starting point for all students researching American Indian issues. (asu.edu)